Wonder Woman Did Blockbuster Ratings With Its TV Premiere on HBOBy Josef Adalian

Wonder Woman continues to wow: This weekends TV debut of the DCComics blockbuster gave HBO its biggest audience for a feature filmpremiere in two years, and even managed to outrate cable coverage ofthe Olympics. Per Nielsen, 2.809 million viewers caught the pay cablenetworks initial Saturday night telecast of Wonder Woman, outdrawingNBC Sports Networks prime-time telecast of the 2018 Winter Games byabout 300,000 viewers. The Gal Gadotled film drew the biggestsingle-day audience for an HBO movie premiere since the Rocks SanAndreas, which  minus any Olympics competition attracted astatistically insignificant 11,000 more viewers (2.820 million) onFebruary 27, 2016. Wonder Woman also drew more viewers than any of theother films in the modern DC Comics extended universe, including Manof Steel (2.374 million), Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2.33million), and Suicide Squad (2.13 million). A Sunday evening rerun ofthe film delivered another 1.6 million viewers, giving HBO its bestSunday movie ratings since a 2014 encore of Furious 6. None of thesenumbers include audiences who chose to DVR HBOs showings of the filmor who opted to watch via HBOs streaming platforms, so the actualviewer tally will end up being much higher.

Unfortunately for HBO, the great Nielsen news didnt extend to its newdrama Here and Now. Despite getting a massive lead-in from the rerunof Wonder Woman, producer Alan Balls latest effort brought in a mere541,000 viewers with its linear premiere Sunday. In addition toranking behind the opener of the quickly canceled Vinyl (which debutedto 764,000 viewers in February 2016), Here and Now appears to be oneof  and maybe the  least-watched HBO drama premiere ever, at leastin the post-Sopranos era. While its overall audience number should goup sharply once DVR replays and multi-platform views get counted particularly given its debut opposite the Olympics  the tepid earlyresponse suggests Here and Now may soon be headed six feet under.

Post by Davidhttp://www.vulture.com/2018/02/wonder-woman-did-blockbuster-ratings-with-its-tv-premiere.htmlWonder Woman Did Blockbuster Ratings With Its TV Premiere on HBOBy Josef AdalianWonder Woman continues to wow: This weekend’s TV debut of the DCComics blockbuster gave HBO its biggest audience for a feature filmpremiere in two years, and even managed to outrate cable coverage ofthe Olympics. Per Nielsen, 2.809 million viewers caught the pay cablenetwork’s initial Saturday night telecast of Wonder Woman, outdrawingNBC Sports Network’s prime-time telecast of the 2018 Winter Games byabout 300,000 viewers. The Gal Gadot–led film drew the biggestsingle-day audience for an HBO movie premiere since the Rock’s SanAndreas, which — minus any Olympics competition— attracted astatistically insignificant 11,000 more viewers (2.820 million) onFebruary 27, 2016. Wonder Woman also drew more viewers than any of theother films in the modern DC Comics extended universe, including Manof Steel (2.374 million), Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2.33million), and Suicide Squad (2.13 million). A Sunday evening rerun ofthe film delivered another 1.6 million viewers, giving HBO its bestSunday movie ratings since a 2014 encore of Furious 6. None of thesenumbers include audiences who chose to DVR HBO’s showings of the filmor who opted to watch via HBO’s streaming platforms, so the actualviewer tally will end up being much higher.Unfortunately for HBO, the great Nielsen news didn’t extend to its newdrama Here and Now. Despite getting a massive lead-in from the rerunof Wonder Woman, producer Alan Ball’s latest effort brought in a mere541,000 viewers with its linear premiere Sunday. In addition toranking behind the opener of the quickly canceled Vinyl (which debutedto 764,000 viewers in February 2016), Here and Now appears to be oneof — and maybe the — least-watched HBO drama premiere ever, at leastin the post-Sopranos era. While its overall audience number should goup sharply once DVR replays and multi-platform views get counted —particularly given its debut opposite the Olympics — the tepid earlyresponse suggests Here and Now may soon be headed six feet under.